ERIC Number: EJ691171
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Mar
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-0261-9768
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Concerns of Teachers about Technology Integration in the USA
Liu, Yuliang; Huang, Carol
European Journal of Teacher Education, v28 n1 p35-47 Mar 2005
This study was designed to examine the current trend and pattern of teachers' concerns about technology integration. Eighty-six in-service teachers in a graduate course participated in the study at a midwestern state university during the summer semester of 2002. The Stages of Concerns (SoC) Questionnaire was used to assess teachers' seven stages of concern: awareness, informational, personal, management, consequence, collaboration and refocusing. This study found that: (1) teachers' concerns as a whole were very intense in these stages informational, personal and refocusing; (2) there were significant statistical differences in teachers' concerns in most stages of concern among teachers with three levels of perception of their implementation status; (3) the concern profile for each of the three subgroups supported the hypothesis of Hall, George & Rutherford (1977) regarding the development of stages of concern for the three different user groups: inexperienced, experienced and renewing. International implications for teacher technology integration are proposed.
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Teacher Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Educational Trends
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Stages of Concern Questionnaire
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